Drink Driving

[Stu]

Originally Posted by sunshine

Back on topic - surely the bar manager would stop serving him if he knew the guy was driving home every night, everyone who knows hes drink drives should feel guilty if hes in an accident.

That's what I was thinking, what's the Landlord's responsibility knowing pretty well that the guy's going to drive.
If he stopped serving him, would he go elsewhere Tim?

is the Landlord to fond of his custom to do anything about it?

[timwilky]

The trouble is he lies. The landlord would not serve him if he said I am going to drive home. In fact if staff are driving, they often give him a lift to make sure he doesn't drive. But he turns round and says I have a taxi or on the bus etc. Which he sometimes does. The problem is there are time when he just disappears and you look and the car has gone as well.


Well I feel like ****. I have done the dirty deed.

Tim, don't feel ****e about it. Can you imagine what he would feel like if he killed someone? His life would be destroyed. Can you imagine what you would feel like??

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by timwilky

Well I feel like ****. I have done the dirty deed.

No reason to feel that way, unequivocally you did the right thing...

Hopefully it'll be a wake up call...

[maviczap]

2 miles is not far, why can't he walk or cycle it.

I agree with the sentiment that you should shop him. Even if he does get done, he may well re-offend as one of my ex colleagues has done twice!

I couldn't live with my concience if somebody got killed or seriously hurt.

If you have then good for you TW, short term guilt complex for this, but better than a lifetime of thinking 'If only I had' if he'd ruined another families life

its not you who is doing a dirty deed! think how you would feel if he wiped out a family in their car?

Tim you have done the right thing. This is obviously habitual now cos he has got away with it for so long. It needs some wake up time to kick the habit. This has got to be better than the possibility of an accident happening.

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me!"

Originally Posted by maviczap

2 miles is not far, why can't he walk or cycle it.

+1 I wouldn't consider driving to the pub if I knew I was drinking. A 25 minute walk each way would keep him the right side of the law and maybe alleviate some of the degenerating physical effects of all that beer.

Ssounds like walking will be his only option now....

Originally Posted by Noble Ox

Ssounds like walking will be his only option now....

You're assuming that the police are going to respond to a call